Students take part in MLK Day of Service

Bridle Path elementray school load a bus with breakfast bags and winter gear they gathered for area people in need as a Martin Luther King Day of Service project Thursday, (The Reporter/Geoff Patton) Follow on Twitter @GeoffPatton

NORTH WALES — The yellow school bus pulled up outside the Lamb Foundation on Thursday afternoon, and when the bus door opened, a line of kids carrying boxes filed into the building, located at 700 E. Main St.

“We made bags with hot chocolate, granola bars and cereal for people who are less fortunate than us,” said 9-year-old Julia Romano, a fourth-grader at Bridle Path Elementary School.

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As part of the Martin Luther King Day of Service, students from Bridle Path collected donations of snacks from their families and made about 650 bags, then a group of 12 fourth, fifth and sixth graders dropped them off at The Lamb Foundation and Manna on Main Street in a school bus, dubbing the event Stuff-A-Bus.

They also brought donations of winter clothes to the Boys and Girls Club of Lansdale.

Students from Gwynedd Square Elementary School will be following the MLK Day’s service motto, “A Day On, Not a Day Off” by assembling their bags of snacks for the Boys and Girls Club on on Friday, a day off for students.

“The residents are really happy to get these donations,” said Pat Drumheller, social director at The Lamb Foundation, a nonprofit organization that provides housing to people with mental and physical disabilities. “We really do appreciate it, especially because it came from the kids.”

Charitible giving at an early age “is something that stays with you,” said Stephen Rocchino of the Lamb Foundation’s Cornucopia Food Cupboard inside Sweet Repeats Family Thrift Shop.

This is the third year that Bridle Path has participated in the MLK Day of Service.

“The kids really love it,” said Jenna Caccese, a parent and member of the home and school association. “They get to see the people who benefit from what they’ve done.”

After the kids brought in the snack bags, Drumheller thanked the kids for their efforts.

“What you guys did today was something really special,” she said. “I think you guys are really awesome. Give yourselves a round of applause.”